attacks on each other, because we have had nadhim zahawi today pledging to reveal his tax records if he is elected prime minister, and that s come about because of attacks on his personalfinances. i think taxes are really huge theme for this year s election. taxes are really huge theme for this year s election- year s election. they are all settin: year s election. they are all setting out year s election. they are all setting out that year s election. they are all setting out that as - year s election. they are all setting out that as their - year s election. they are all| setting out that as their first year s election. they are all - setting out that as their first kind of area? it setting out that as their first kind of area? , ., ., ., of area? it is worth noting that none of these of area? it is worth noting that none of these pledges - of area? it is worth noting that none of these pledges is - of area? it is worth noting that. none of these pledges is remotely costed,
things that he has been a part of, including saying he will shut down the virus. well, now, we are back in that motive, he wants to lock everybody down and penalize them if they don t have a forced government mandated vaccine. it s been a rough year for joe biden. but, really it s been a rougher year for americans. ben: actually, we have got a little excerpt from that memo that says there is no other way to describe the first year of president biden s presidency other than an utter failure. worse yet, biden s attempts to bill it as a success proves just how out of touch they are with the american people. i want to get your thoughts, also, on this list. i mean the rnc has called out specific promises he made tax pledges. bringing prosperity. shutting down covid. addressing the border crisis. all of those. not what just what he dealt with how he tried to mask them. the ships, he claimed the supply
mr. trump s unconventional and unstoppable campaign style at this point? i think it s absolutely evidence it s starting to bubble more to the surface, that it s not just the candidates themselves who are frustrated that unexpectedly, i think safe to say that when this campaign began a couple months ago, this was unexpected, his sustained place in the polls. it s not just the other candidates anymore. it s now other movers and shakers within the republican party. reed rivle has only been in congress for this is his second term. since between. he s an interesting choice to focus on because he was swept in with the tea party wave. he beat an incumbent democrat. since getting there, he staked out an independent position. not all a conservative orthodoxy. he s refused to sign no tax pledges. he s also at the same time become an accolade of leadership
loopholes and deductions and take it out that way. the ideology doesn t allow them to do it that way. republicans have problems with tax pledges. you need more revenue as a part of it. there s slowly that realization that they have to come together. whether they can do it in a couple days is doubtful. you brought up lbj there. yes, there should be responsibility maybe on the president. the president talked about that a bit this morning when david gregory was questioning him. do you see it that way? in this late our, this 11th how, how much responsibility is it for the commander and chief to get something done? he s up against what he is at the house. at the end of the day, the president is the stewart of the overall economy. you learn that in the navy as the captain of a ship. at the same time, both parties need to look and see that both speaker boehner and president obama did come close to a principaled compromise.
to compromise? yes, i do. alisyn: how is that. first of all he s compromised all over the place. he compromised on healthcare, he compromised all throughout. the reason we haven t gone back to the clinton tax rates and never honored the sunset provisions of the bush tax cuts was because the president continued to give republicans what they wanted, time and time again. he s compromised so much that a lot of progressives are a little upset that he s compromised so much. alisyn: the fiscal cliff in particular. we got to the fiscal cliff because you had a bunch of republicans who wanted not to work with this president. now you ve got republicans all of a sudden saying they are not going to take tax pledges like grover more question is wants, they are open to revenue enhancement. if they had said that two years ago or one year ago moody s wouldn t have lowered the pwhopbd ratinbond rating of the united states. they ve created such uncertainty. alisyn: now that we are at the 11th hour